About this series
East meets West at a New Year party.
New kopitiam chef Lee Law Ree or Lawrie is introduced by his employer Mrs Wong to her nephew from San Francisco, Brody, a veritable Greek god born of a union between a Chinese father and a Greek American. Their lust thrums as they set eyes on each other.
Lawrie desires more than just dalliance. Will his prayers to his deities be answered? Or will he have to surrender Brody to a Malaysian girl Mrs Wong attempts to matchmake him with?
Titles in the series (3)
- Becoming Ah Lan Toh: Chow Kit Chronicles, #1
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In swinging 60s seedy Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, in recently renamed South East Asian country of Malaysia, cabaret singer Ah Lan is taught a unique method by voice coach Sammi to not only make men clap but to stand up in more ways than one. Sammi is looking for love, setting his sights on one particular GI in the audience, who is on R&R from the war in Vietnam. And so is Ah Lan. But her chances are slim—she stands a head taller than most Asian men. But as fate would have it, her elderly neighbors the Tans are helping to fix her up with a very tall Affendi. He tells them he bartends at a club but, but left out the stripping on the side. All this while Ah Lan is puzzling over the subtle changes to her body: broader shoulders, harder muscles, for instance. When a jealous colleague hires her dressmaker Madam Chan to invoke some local black magic on her, she begins to morph.
- Orlando Rises: Chow Kit Chronicles, #3
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A sequel to 'Becoming Ah Lan Toh', this new novel continues the ongoing story of Ah Lan. She has now completely transitioned into a full blown man. He is more than merely unusual in his gender transformation. He has managed to outlive all the characters in the last book—by more than a hundred years. He is a very very old gentleman these days. Having lived for over a hundred years, he has come to accept his longevity. But lately he has noticed once again the beginnings to another set of subtle changes are about to happen. Now officially named Orlando Toh, he had married and had children. They in turn married and had their own children. Living as he is now for up to a hundred years and more, he regrets watching loved ones come and go. Now, still living in ultra modernised Chow Kit in vastly developed Malaysia, he mostly contends himself with a quiet life, living under the same roof as his surviving great great granddaughter, Mary. And she is now herself 80 years old, with her own grown and married children, and in the course of things, she has her own grandchildren. Mary will be planning his great great grandfather's ultimate birthday. In the course of her preparations she learns some hidden histories about old Orlando. And in the end, what will happen to Orlando?
- Chushi: Chow Kit Chronicles, #4
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East meets West at a New Year party. New kopitiam chef Lee Law Ree or Lawrie is introduced by his employer Mrs Wong to her nephew from San Francisco, Brody, a veritable Greek god born of a union between a Chinese father and a Greek American. Their lust thrums as they set eyes on each other. Lawrie desires more than just dalliance. Will his prayers to his deities be answered? Or will he have to surrender Brody to a Malaysian girl Mrs Wong attempts to matchmake him with?
Leon Wing
Leon Wing's poems can be found in PoetryPoem, Readings from Readings 2, The Malaysian Poetic Chronicles, Eksentrika, Rambutan Literary, and Haikuniverse. A poem about the Syrian migration to Europe is featured in the Fixi anthology Little Basket 2017. He occasionally takes some poem apart and puts it back together, on the poetry blog puisipoesy.blogspot.com. He has short stories published in Eksentrika, Queer Southeast Asia and the Canadian Asian literary magazine Ricepaper, and in anthologies like PJ Confidential and Remang, a collection of Malaysian ghost stories.
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